%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Xorg Fonts Xorg Fonts Introduction to Xorg Fonts The Xorg font packages provide needed fonts to the Xorg applications. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: Download size: &x7fonts-size; Estimated disk space required: &x7fonts-buildsize; Estimated build time: &x7fonts-time; Required and User Notes: Downloading Xorg Fonts To download the needed files using wget, use the following commands: wget &files-anduin;/xorg/font-7.1.wget && mkdir font && cd font && wget -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/ \ -i ../font-7.1.wget Installation of Xorg Fonts Run the following commands for each package: ./configure $XORG_CONFIG && make These packages do not provide test suites. Now as the root user: make install When all of the fonts have been installed, the system must be configured so that Fontconfig can find the TrueType fonts since they are outside of the default search path of /usr/share/fonts. Make symlinks to the Xorg TrueType font directories by running the following commands as the root user: install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts && ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories bdftruncate and ucs2any None $XORG_PREFIX/fonts and /usr/share/fonts/X11-{TTF,OTF} Short Descriptions bdftruncate generates a truncated BDF font from an ISO 10646-1-encoded BDF font. bdftruncate ucs2any generates BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 codepoints. ucs2any